Battle of the Bands!

"Rockin' in the Free World"

© Deevers Photography

Wow! What a night. I spent an evening jamming with local high school bands at Rickman Auditorium in Arnold, Missouri and it was a blast. It was four hours of high octane adrenaline served with a side dish of rock attitude.

This shoot was a complete education in low-light photography. I did see others using their flashes, but I find in this type of venue that it is more distracting than anything. Also, you tend to loose the flavor of the evening because everything has that stark, on-camera flash look. I didn't contact the venue ahead of time to see if I could utilize multiple strobes. If I did I would have definitely used off axis lighting.

The auditorium lighting was the traditional PAR stage lighting common in most community theaters. It was a static system but it did seem to have changed later in the evening.

Canon 1d Mark III with 70-200 f/2.8 @ 100 (varied depending on stage location), ISO 3200

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